“Collaboration is the DNA of the knowledge economy” says our Chief Explorer, Don Simpson. This is something the Innovation Expedition seeks to put into practice in a variety of ways. Our flagship approach is the Challenge Dialogue System™ - but this is not our only approach. In a number of projects, we have used both wiki’s and blogs to engage a community of interest in a project.
For example, we have worked with seventeen research institutes around the world to build a business plan for an international collaboration focused on animal vaccine research related to animal diseases affecting the developing world (especially Africa). You can see this work at http://vaccineenterprisenetwork.wikispaces.com/
For InfoTech Alberta we developed an approach to looking systematically at emerging technologies – see this at http://abtech.wikispaces.com/ and a similar approach was used for the work the Expedition did for the Alberta Fibre Roadmap (a project looking at the future of the fibre industries) – see http://fibreroadmap.wikispaces.com/
The downside of wiki’s is that they are not in common use – many do not understand just how easy it is to edit, add and update information on a wiki site or that this is their very purpose. It is an engagement technology, not a passive technology.
Blogs, however, are in much more common use. The Chief Scout, Steve Murgatroyd, maintains an Innovation, Change and Development blog at http://murgatroydinnov8.blogspot.com/ and receives comments from all over the world on the ideas and topics he posts on.
For more information contact stephen.murgatroyd@shaw.ca |
